Time to kickstart your Monday with a couple tunes from Anacortes, WA indie darlings, The Lonely Forest.

Happy Monday!

Team Up for Nonprofits wouldn’t be able to bring you the awesome music and important causes without the support of our partners. For three years, we’ve been working with pod4print, a full-service printing company in Beaverton, to help us with posters and marketing.

“We jumped at the chance,” said Josh Dannenman, account executive at pod4print. Josh heard about Team Up for Nonprofits and Gigs4Good through a friend. “We heard they were doing this cool thing and were in need of some assistance.”

Beyond printing and supporting nonprofits, pod4print provides business solutions such as manufacturing, warehousing, and full mailing services. Their online ordering template puts the customer in control of their own product, so there are no surprises and no gimmicks. Just straight up, high-quality products. Check out their website, pod4print.com, for more information.

“Ryan Hodgson is a great guy and a blast to work with,” says Josh. “It is our pleasure to do what we can to support a great cause.”

Thank you for all the great posters gang!

A member of the pod4print team in action.

Already picked up your ticket for our upcoming April 12 #Gigs4Good event benefiting Seattle Works?? Fantastic.

Time to put away the Irish jigs from this past weekend and start tuning your ears to the three fantastic artists that will be featured on April 12. We’ve made it easy for you with a playlist that includes tunes from Ivan and Alyosha, Yuni in Taxco and Kevin Long. You can check out the playlist on YouTube or pick and choose below.

Happy Monday and if by chance you haven’t had a chance to snag a ticket to the upcoming show, be sure to do so as well as join our Facebook event to help spread the word!

We’re thrilled to announce that Gigs4Good #11 will benefit wonderful local nonprofit Seattle Works and will feature rising stars Ivan and Alyosha, Yuni In Taxco and Kevin Long.  Please join us at The Hard Rock Café on Thursday April 12.

The event will raise vital funds for Seattle Works, a local organization that connects volunteers, develops emerging leaders and inspires dialogue. Funds raised through this Gigs4Good benefit will support Seattle Works Day, an event that engages over a thousand volunteers in one day to dig in at parks, schools and community spaces all over the city. Groups of coworkers, friends, professional groups, social organizations and more join together for this awesome day of teambuilding and impact.

Show headliner Ivan and Alyosha’s soulful folk tunes suggest a band inspired, hopeful and longing; a band unafraid to probe their collective faith and doubts. Their track “Easy To Love” earned NPR Song of the Day honors as “a propulsive, sweetly booming ode to love as a feat of endurance.”  We at Team Up are not the only fans of this band, Brandi Carlile has had the boys open for her on multiple occasions.

Yuni in Taxco have been featured prominently on KEXP and have played a number of sold out shows in Seattle. Last summer saw them play every major music festival in the Seattle area including Capitol Hill Block Party, Bumbershoot, and City Arts Fest. Their 3rd album “Prizes” is due out in the Spring on Havaii Records.

Opening the show is Kevin Long, a 27 year old singer/songwriter originally from Spokane, WA. Heavily influenced by artists such as Neil Young, Elliott Smith and Nick Drake, simple song structures graced with intricate guitar picking, open tunings, and soft-spoken poignant lyrics make up his highly melodic, emotionally edgy tunes.

Be sure to snag your tickets today and help spread the word!

WHEN: Thursday, April 12, 2012 — Doors at 7pm, Music at 8pm
WHERE: Hard Rock Cafe, 116 Pike St., Street, WA, 98101
TICKETS: $ 20 Advance  21+, Purchase Tickets Now

On the night of September 6, 2011, Century Field was turned over to director Jimmy Diebold to put together a stunning light show which was later paired with this fantastic tune from M83. Check out the full story from the Seattle PI and as you watch, keep in mind that no special effects we’re used.

Seattleites – we live in a pretty special place.

First discovery of Team Up for Nonprofits?

Curious about artists that we’ve featured in our past Gigs4Good events?

In need of good tunes to help you fight through the Monday blues?

Well, well, we’ve got a playlist below compiled of past Gigs4Good artists to help jumpstart your day and pair nicely with that touch of sun outside our Seattle windows. Give a click below and enjoy!

Take a look at our fearless leader, Ryan Hodgson, in this recent “Spotlight on Seattle” Red Carpet Interview by Tenacious Ventures at Barrier Mercedes Bellevue benefiting the YMCA of Greater Seattle. Keep spreading the word!

Huge thanks to everyone that made it out for the Feb. 9 Gigs4Good show with Kris Orlowski and Dawn Mitschele at Triple Door. An amazing night all around. Be sure to check out some of the photos below and we can’t wait to have you join us at our next event!

In addition, be sure to check out this great PSA that Kris Orlowski did for the show’s nonprofit partner, Climate Solutions. Good music backing good causes in combination with your support at the heart of it all…let’s keep helping drive big impact.

The following post originally appeared on Seattle Works’ blog. Check out the fantastic volunteer leadership program they run called The Bridge! Thanks to the program, we landed our fantastic Communications Committee chair, Kristen Grant. Check out her story below.

“I participated in The Bridge program in the Fall of 2011 and connected with a number of great organizations seeking new board members. No two boards are alike, and The Bridge prepared me to ask the right questions – of the nonprofits and of myself – while exploring opportunities for board service to find a great mutual fit.

I really connected with Team Up for Nonprofit’s mission to build capacity for nonprofit organizations by cultivating a new generation of engaged supporters through the power of music and social media. In addition to providing monetary support through the funds raised at Team Up’s Gigs4Good shows, Team Up helps each nonprofit build awareness with young audiences and develop a strong foundation for future outreach and engagement. I enjoy volunteering for a number of different types of nonprofits, from animal rescues to conservation organizations, so I especially appreciate the opportunity to support a variety of local nonprofits through my work with the Team Up board.

The board of directors is young and actively involved, and the passion of Ryan Hodgson, Team Up’s founder and president, for the organization and the local nonprofit community is consistently inspiring.  As the Communications Committee chair, I work with over a dozen volunteers who lend their skills to build excitement for each upcoming Gigs4Good show, outreach to music and nonprofit bloggers and engage our online following.  I look forward to helping this young and growing nonprofit continue to bring together Seattle’s music and nonprofit communities to support many deserving local nonprofits in 2012.”       -Kristen Grant

Want to follow Kristen’s lead?

Sign up for the next Bridge training course starting on Sat 2/25 – http://www.seattleworks.org/bridgesignup

We are excited to announce that as of this morning all seated tickets to our Gigs4Good benefit for Climate Solutions on Thursday night are sold out!  But if you didn’t get tickets don’t dispair, there are two ways you can still watch Kris Orlowski and Dawn Mitschele at The Triple Door and support the Power Past Coal movement.

The first way is to purchase one of the few remaining standing tickets to the show.  You can purchase them by clicking here.

The other way is to win the best seats in the house and a special VIP Experience where you will receive pics with the bands, $100 of free food and bev at the show, as well as a a pair of tickets to an upcoming event at The Triple Door ($50 value).  Sounds pretty decent huh?  Here’s what you need to do by noon Wednesday (2/8).

Download the Pirq app and when you sign into the App for the first time you need to enter the promo code “TeamUp”.   You can download the app by texting “PIRQ” to 68398.  It’s that simple!  The lucky winner will be announced by 1pm tomorrow… good luck!